Steve: I think the worst thing about 20th century communism was not the economic system but the totalitarianism, the police state and the spying and prison camps.

Maybe it was the revolutionary origins, the utopianism, the materialism, the fact the government had too much power because it owned and controlled everything BUT if it were possible to have communism with democracy, free speech, freedom of religion, trial by jury etc it really wouldn’t be so bad, you could live with the economic system.

Remember the communist countries had the cold war and sanctions and stuff to contend with too.

They have a certain amount of free speech in China, Vietnam and Cuba, but maybe not as much as you would like. They have anti-government demonstrations in Vietnam, and there are 100 protests every day in China.

There is critical press in Cuba that no one does anything about (check out Havana Times) and dissidents are mostly allowed to publish openly (check out the famous Cuban woman dissident blogger). There is freedom of religion in Cuba, and believers can now join the Party. They have trial by jury in Cuba. I am not sure how fair it is though. But there are some defense attorneys who are taking anti-government cases right now, people accused of criminal charges, police brutality cases, etc. You can read about them in Havana Times. Nobody does much to them.

In Cuba it was supposedly inside the revolution, total freedom of speech, outside of it nothing. But it never really worked out that way, and they went after a lot of loyal opposition types. In Cuba today, you can’t try to overthrow the government and you can’t advocate getting rid of the socialist system. Outside of that, you can supposedly say what you want, but even that may be limited. Check out Havana Times though. There are some very government-critical people there being published all the time, and I think they are mostly left alone.

Every time they try that, the capitalists go berserk, cause chaos and make endless coup and assassination attempts. Also they engage in mass economic sabotage. But this was only tried in places where the economy was still capitalist. The US starts flooding the country with millions of dollars to the dissidents and spends more millions setting up countless “democratic” pressure group that mostly spend every second of their time trying to overthrow the government. You going to let people own newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations. Guess who’s going to buy up all the media? In Venezuela even today, 75% of the media is privately owned. OK you will allow free elections. How about campaign contributions? Guess who’s going to buy the elections?

Mao warned about this. He said there were always capitalist elements in the party trying to restore capitalism. That was the reason for the cultural revolution. Mao thought you would have to have cultural revolutions all the time to keep weeding out the reactionary elements in the party because they would keep springing up again like weeds.

Look what happened when Mao died. The reactionaries in the party around Deng took over and restored capitalism (sort of). Mao was right.

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Mao warned about this. He said there were always capitalist elements in the party trying to restore capitalism. That was the reason for the cultural revolution. Mao thought you would have to have cultural revolutions all the time to keep weeding out the reactionary elements in the party because they would keep springing up again like weeds.

Look what happened when Mao died. The reactionaries in the party around Deng took over and restored capitalism (sort of). Mao was right.

Yeah, but in another post you mentioned you agreed with Deng, that pure Communism doesn’t work, only a Sweden model.

well if that’s what it takes to preserve communism, I’d rather than have capitalism than dictatorship and constant cultural revolutions.

When you have a false view of how the world should ideally be that goes against the natural instincts and inclinations of the people and that not everyone agrees with, then no wonder you have to constantly purge opposition. That’s why Utopia is only reached over a sea of bodies, and then still not at all.

The cultural revolution also tried to purge and suppress traditional elements of society….as the spiritual wisdom of Taoism and Buddhism are far profounder than Marx’s ignorant materialism, this was a demonic campaign by the forces of darkness.

In Russia, A couple of hundred thousand clergy were purged and the look what China did in Tibet after Mao told the Dalai Lama ‘religion is poison’.

I’m in favour of the socialist democracies, and whoever is trying to get rid of that are the bad guys in that case.

But what Deng did was for the best as far as I’m concerned. The ‘reactionary’ elements may be greedy people who want to be rich or they may be people who honestly think that some degree of capitalism would improve the system. If you have to purge people constantly just to keep your idea alive, that says something right there!

Disgusting hate filled pigs like stalin tonks or manipulative Jew boys like Trash will destroy any system be it socialist or capitalist. They need to be ruled by leaders like mao zedung to get their acts right.

I’m no fan of the Communist Chinese but this plan by the Chinese is brilliant. We should be doing this. They are actually planning for the rise of the robots making most Human labor obsolete. I think the US plan is to just kill everyone.